An armed group shot and killed eight people in the state of Guanajuato, the most violent region in Mexico, authorities reported on Sunday.

The victims—five women and three men—were in the street when they were gunned down on Saturday night, according to the state prosecutor’s office. The attack took place in the municipality of Cortázar, where in 2023, armed men stormed a water park and killed seven people, including a child.

Also in Guanajuato, on Sunday, authorities arrested Christian Alejandro “N,” known as “Cholo,” whose last name has been withheld due to ongoing legal proceedings.

The suspect, captured by the National Guard, has been identified by local media as a top hitman leader for the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel.

Guanajuato accounted for the highest percentage of homicides in Mexico in January, making up 13.3% of the total, according to official figures.

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The state, home to major industrial and tourist hubs—including manufacturing plants for Mazda and Toyota—has become a battleground between the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, recently designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S. government, and the Santa Rosa de Lima gang.

A newborn died on Monday in Paris after being thrown from a hotel window by its mother, an 18-year-old American student, with the umbilical cord still attached, according to the prosecutor’s office and a police source.

The young woman threw the baby from the second floor of a hotel in eastern Paris, the prosecutor’s office stated. “The newborn received emergency medical care but did not survive,” it confirmed, as first reported by Paris Match. The infant was pronounced dead at 7:45 AM (6:45 AM GMT) at the Robert Debré Hospital in Paris, a police source told AFP.

Authorities were alerted after the baby was discovered wrapped in a cloth, with the umbilical cord still attached, according to the police source. The mother had given birth in a second-floor hotel room before throwing the baby out of the window, the source added.

Officials have launched a homicide investigation and have taken the mother into custody. She was reportedly part of a group of young adults traveling through Europe.

The young woman was transported to the hospital for surgery following the childbirth, the police source said.

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According to Paris Match, the mother was in Paris on a study trip with other American students.

A bomb attack on a police station in southwestern Colombia left 17 people injured on Monday, including two police officers and three minors, local authorities reported.

The explosion occurred in the rural municipality of Morales, in the Cauca department, where “an explosive device, possibly a motorcycle bomb, detonated just meters away from the police station, leaving 17 people injured,” said Cauca Governor Octavio Guzmán on Monday via his account on social media platform X.

Among the victims is “a 7-year-old girl who had to be urgently transported due to the severity of her injuries, as well as two young people with shrapnel wounds on their faces,” the governor stated. Two police officers were also injured and are being transported for medical treatment, he added. Authorities have yet to identify the perpetrators of the attack.

Morales’ mayor, Óscar Yamit Guachetá, posted a video on X showing uniformed children fleeing the attack, along with dozens of people trying to distance themselves from the smoke-filled site after the blast. “I have injured children,” the mayor wrote, without providing further details.